The Sun. — London, England, 1809-02-07 00:00:00

z ~~t , . this iti . poititinent could brink no tiaitiutial buitien aipon the public: Since he had held the 'Office he 'now filled, he had kept . the list as lie found and any Gentlemzin who would take the trouble Of look= ing it over, would See that no changeS had been made for the take of providing pikes for those Whom Ministers might consider as Mere friendly to, ,theni than persons appointed bytheir piedecessors. There was only some exception to this iti the appointment of Lord Granville Lesiscn in the rodini of the Mar- Anis of Douglas, at Petersburgh., It would occur to Gentlemen such a change was absolutely necessary, as Ministers must haVe required a person to be at that Court in whom they had - full confidence. In the case of . Lord Amherst, he had little to say in explanation, as it must be confessed that cogent reasons might exist for that change, which it would be highly improper to detail to the public. One good reason, however, sufficient to account, for, the appointment of the Noble Lord to supersede Mr. Druthmond, might easily be found in the necessity that existed for sending a person of high rank to fill the situation. Certainly Lord Amherst accepted of that office without any view of burdening the public With a pension on his return. The next appoint- Inent alluded to was that of Mr. Villiers" to'Portugal; and to this he could answer, that he had no particu 7 Jar desire to promote-the interests of that Gentleman; but no persoa more fit for the office, which was a necessary one, being ,to be fpund; he was seletaed for it. The office was of such a nature that it could not continue long, as either by the return of, the Court from the Brazils it would merge into the 'office Of Ambassador to that toert, or would cease on the occupation of Portugal to the enetny. At all events it would not bring one shilling of eventual burden on the The: last case was that of . Ur.>Douglas, who was a very worthy young man, and had been long usefully employed in the Foreign Office. He Was now beginning his diplomdtic ca ieer, from his diligence and ability would doubt . lass be found a valuable servant to his country.— These were the points touched on by thelight Hb hourable Gentleman, with whom he was ready to agree on theliMited principle that no active and efficient man ought to be taken out of the list to tnake room for the friends of Ministers, .but he could never subscribe to the doctrine that no recruits were to be added to our diplomatic body till the whole died out. He challenged the Right Honourabl e Gentleman to me n ti on a single instance in which any appointment for the sake of their own peculiar .Mends had been made by. the present Admini atration. BANKES explained, 'and instanced a Mr. bray, who had been Charge d'Affiires at Dres den, as receiving a pension of 6001. per annum. Mr. CANNING observed, that one instance out of fifty persons was a proof of the existence of a con trary practice. Mr. Gray had received this pension forty years ago, was very aged, and had been Se cretary orLegation, as wall as Charge d'Affaires. Mr. ROSE expressed his opinion, that Mr. Jefil.!ry's acceptance of the office of Consul vacated . his seat. Mr. PoNsoNav noticed, that by the instrument, Mr. Jeffery was appointed Consul Gen!ral in all the European dominions of her Faithful Majesty, and was to reside at Lisbon ,or elsewhere, at the pleasUre bf the King. He trusted, .with. all the present Ministry's regard to economy, they did not intend, if her , FaithfitlMajesty's - continental dominions were lost, of which there was now, and had been on the 31st December, when the appointment was made 9u4 every prospect, that our Consul should be paid 'a salary pt . 1.5001.,f0r remaining on a small and on productive island in Europe, belonging to her Faith ful Maje Sty. Mr. CANNING asked, to what islands the Right 4 Hoh. Gentleman. alluded to. Mr. l PONSONBY 'answered, to Madeira or the Mores: Mr. CANNING said;, he bad flot a map or book of geography at hand, .but it would never have occur red to him to place these islands iUt , Eurape. Bugeo 'Wei not in Europe, and the •onlq oiher island be longing to the Crown of. Portugal - was a barren rock, in. which there was no port for the residence of a .Consul: _,After some observati o n s from M. Abercrotnbie, MK Johnson, Mr. Canning, and Mr. Fluskisson, a neW. Writ was ordered to be issued pursuant to the • • , 'notion. On the motion of the SOLICITOR-GENERL, Col. Loraine was ordered to he summoned for to-morrow, as a witness in the inquiry into the conduct of the Duke of York, The House having resolved itself into a Commit tee of Ways and Means, came to a resolution to cientinue the duty on malt, the duty on sugar, the pension dutyy and to raise the sums of 10,500,0001. and 1,500,0001. by Exchequer Bills, as the loan for the year.. Report to be aceived to-morrow.. Mr. HostussoN presented an account of the Re venues of the Isle of Man, which, was laid on the table. , ' , IIiLITIA ENLISTMENT 1311,1„ Ou the Motion of Lord C. 1511, CIL I.LALITI, the order of the day for the House going info a Committee on this Bill, .was read. Ou the question for the Speaker's leaving the,Chair, Sir THOMAS TuaroN opposed it, on the ground no necessity for the raising so numerous * body of then had been shewn. they were in tended fur ot h er exped i t i ons into Spain, lie never could give his assent for the Bill. Mt. HERAEIIT spoke at some length in favour of t he yxpedieney of transferring 11th English Militia 'to Irela n d,. and Luce versa, the rish Militia to England. For this purpose he would propose a clause, that the suldieri enlisted should take an oath to serve in the United Kingdom. • The SPEAKER observed, that ,any alteration of this kind would come with More propriety in 'the Committee. \ Lord CASTLERZAGH suggested, that it would be better to defer Motion of so much importanO till the House came to decide on the Bill for raising the new men. To which suggestion Mr. Herbert alierwardi agreed. The House then went into the COmmittee, in Which the Bill was read; the blanks filled up, and ,agreed to, and a new clause, added, allowing one .serjeant and one corporal to enter into the regulars with every 'twenty men from the militia. The Re- Tort •wa4,ordered to be brought up on Thursday. PISTILLATION FROM SUGAR: The Cnkticgo.oti of the ExcttEtittm moved . the Order of thta Day kr the second re ding of the Bill .• to cotitintii the Eill for • restricting the ni stillatioil from Grain. , Si JAML:s HALL Opposed the Bill, a ciculated to create a' glut in the market, and.consequently piroduce an exuberant population . , Which iii a few years (though the Measure might be found expedi tilt at the present time); would feel the till ettl.tdi 'arising froth the circUrnstance of raising a fictitious plenty, which Would not then lie found adequate to the in'crea'sed consumption. Mr. limaarvr spoke in favour of extending the measure to Ireland. • Mr. FOSTEIt was against the Rill, which he enii tended had lessened the Irish revenue one-third; and promoted contraband and illegal private distil lation, among - a people whose feelings were a .con tempt of the law and a disposition not to obey.— They saw that all the% Revenue Officers could not keep down private distillation, because the Farmers thought these Distillers good customers who took the grain from them at their own doors. Upon thi s account, and the differenc e of the price of the born' in the two countries, he could not agree to the ex pediency of extending the operation of the Act .to Ireland, Mr. EDEN confessed that this measure had been found to afford great relief to the' planter. He con demned Ministers for baying rejected the overtures made by America in. August, as, if the embargo Were to be taken off, corn and flour t(i the annual value of 9000,0001; (as in the year 1807); might beltnported from thence to make up the deficiency in this country. But Ministers were at that time too much occupied in building castles in Spain, to condescend to so low a subject as the subsistence of the people. The quartern loaf was now at I sd. ; and thus the people were obliged t o pi nc h t h e i r . , .stomacns tor tne smart epigrams and sarcastic witti cisms of our Foreign Secretary.--(Here the Hon. .Gentleman. was calla to order-41r. canning was not in the House:)—fie gave his consent to the Bill with this understanding-, that if channels of impor tation were in.future :tiered, Ministers would avail themselves of the dispensing clause contained in the Bill, and return to distillation from grain. Mr. MAaato . rr . spoke in favour of the Biil, and wished a power to be \gr4nted to his Majesty to extend it. He charaCterised if as one of the most excellent measure's ever adopted, for the relief of the planter and good of the country, in promot ing the importation of our colonial,produce, while it at the same tune prevented the exportation of our corn. The CHANCELLOR of the EXCHEQUER repro bated the line of conduct purtmed by. Mr. Eden, who introduced, whether to the purpose or not; his favourite topic of abusing the measures of his Ma jesty's Ministers. A s he now confessed he had been wrong in his opinion on this Bill' last Se,Sio2l, that might have taught him to be less pOsitive in the present instance, and to pay some little deference to the opinion of others. He, then answered the guments that had been urged against the Bill; and thought it rather extraordinary that an Honourable Baronet (Sir J. HMO should look to the distant effeds ota measure which was only a temporary one. If it was to do evil, through years of abundance and replOon, he would find it difficult to persuade the House to agree with him in condemning it: The Right Honourable Gentletnan concluded, by stating many reasons tor not•cxtending the 'measure to Ire land ; and mentioned:that he would, in the progress of the Bill, move for the appointment of a Comtnit, tee, to, consider of the proper time to open the infer- ' course betweentfie two countries. Sir J. HALL and Mr. I - Ixn explained. Mr. BALI] ANI thought that Ministers were guilty of a great degree of pertinacity and partiality with regard to Ireland, by introducing a .spoke into the wheel, or in other words, a clause which enabled the Irish, in . a variety of instances, to defeat the Distillery Ad as passed last Session.. Mr.FOSTER, in explanation, said, with a consider able degree of warmth, that. whoever. was capable of charging another Gentleman of so base and foul an intention-, would be guilty 'or the. same condud him self. ' The Right Hon. Gentleman expressed his regret at having said any thing that Could give any personal offence to any Hon. Gentleman ; but he .thought the charge was so undeserved and inconsist ent with the unitcam Character he (Mr. Foster) sup ported, that 'be was in some measure justified in whOt he had,said. Mr. BARHAM assured the Right Hon. Gentleman, that he did not mean in the remotest degree any personal allusion to him, and therefore trusted no further notice would be taken of these words. Mr. BERESFORD supported the measure. Mr. DAVIS GIDDY felt it his duty to (rive' his sup port to the measure, as being peculiarly adapted to the present situation of Europe," but , not as forming a part .of a system to be hereafter continued at the will of Ministers. Mr. &Lis' was of opinion, that justice was nit done to the late Act in respect of Ireland, it not ,htiving obtained a'sufficient trial. HusicissoN supported the Bill chiefly on the ground that distillation of spirits trop sugar was. in dispensably mecessary for the prosperity of our cO lonial trade, and that the temporary suspension of distillation from corn could not in any material de gree be injurious either to the landlord or farmer. Mr. TilciaNroN supported the Bill on general principles. Mr. !MACLEOD thought, hs there was a very plena tiful crop of all kinds this last harvest in the High lands of Scotland, that. the operatiOn of the Bill ouolit not to be extended to that quarter, /he Bill was then read a second time, and com mitted for Thursday,—Adjuurned at Half-past Teu o'Clock. THE SUN. icalm QUss Dicta& PA611U44 411011 AT ? LONDON, i'UtSDAY, FEBRUARY 7, 1809. Captain• Pitcro, of the 'Achates Sloop, arrived yesterday at Portsmouth, with dispatches from Admiral' CoCHU,ANr., at Bartadoes, with which he came to town last night, , bat the contents had not transpired when this Paper was put to Press. We have not hewd that the attack on . Martinique ha l been made when the dichates came away. Nkte are still unable to communicate to our Readeri I • any intelagenCe from Spain. The last accounts from Portugal were hrOught bya Veisel which ..arrived at Plymouth on 'Saturday; .and left Lisboa On the 28th ul% ; at that time, no accounts had been received of t he P'rench having 'entered POrtugat We are happy to find that all classes of PeoPle in POrtugal are tin ! animous in their ,r detertnination to resist the French; and the Government is making the Most vigdrous I - preparations tor defence. A Morning paper, Which appears by no means Satisfied with the.progress of the Inquiry respe6ling the Duke of Yonx, says, that it is a most seauina . - ble diversion to Minikers. Whether this observa tion is intended as a sneer upon Mr. WAantx or not, we do hot pretend to determine, 'but certainly many Of the Opposition now seem to think it necessary to disclaim all connexion with him in this bUsinesa.--• But the Paragraph gees on to state that the Inquiry " is carried on at the Bar, a tribunal to which the " House would not refer the case even of a contested ele6tion fora Peer's Borough. But it is thdught " ddiisable to chuse this Court s where there are no " fixed rules of evidence, nor any evidence tipt:n " oath ! How longls it to be suffered to continue ?" With respeO to the disc. very, that contested elec tions are not tried at the Bar of the House, itcer tainly is not very new, because since the passing° of Mr. ,GRENVILLE'S ALI, they have . been tried by a Tribunal constituted under that Mt. But the great point of the paragraph seems to be, that a Court has been chosen - where there are no fixed rules of evi den&: upon oath: Chosen, by whom ? Mr. WAR DLE, having brought the subje6t before the House of Commons, knew that there were only two modes of proceeding—either to refer the business to a Committee above stairs, or to a Committee of the whole House. In either case, the, rules of evi dence would be the same ; in neither case would the Witnesses have been examined upon oath ; the only difference is, that, by the mode now adopted, the examinatiou is more public. What, then, is the ground of this complaint ? Why, that this examination is carried on in the same way, and upon the same principles, that all examinations before the House of Commons ever have been. Yesterday, about one o'clock, his .MAJESTY ar rived at the Queen's Palace, from Windsor. His Manny was not • able to travel by the regular roads, on accostig. of the Hooded state of them, but went over SUDbmy Common to Twickenhatn,where he changed hories; 'and proceeded through the town of 'Richmond, through Putney, down the king's Read,. through Pimlico, to the Queen's Palace, where he was received by the DtikeS ot YORK, Kewr, CUMBERLAND and CAMBRIDGE. -- At tiA . 4 o'clock his MAJESTY held a private Levee, which was at- . tended by • The Archbishops of Canterbury and York; the Lord Chancellor; the President of the Council ; the Lord Privy, Seal; the First Lord of the Treasury ; the First Lard of the Admiralty ; the three Secretaries of State;- the Chancellor of the Exchequer ; the Secretary at War; the Lord Chain. berlain ; the Loid Steward of the Household ; the Judge of the Admiralty ; the lodge of the Arches Court the king's Advocate ; the Recorder ut London ; the I,3ukq or Mon. trose; Earls Mount Edgeeurnbe. Morton, and Witiolleisea ; Viscount Melville ; Lords Ard en , Be s tial:ld; Culthorpe, ALA Amherst. The following, had the honour of being presented to his MAJISSTY Admiral Da Courcey, upon his return from service. Sir John Nichols, upon his being appoi,nted a judge of the Arches Court. Ur. Christopher Robinson, upon his being appointed the King's Advocate. Sii Samuel' Hood, upon his 'return from service oft the Coast of Spain. Lord Calthorpe, ?Upon his coming of age. • Lieutenant-Colunel Murray, upon his return from being Quarter-Master-General to the Army serving in Spain, and tne Hon. Captain*A. .Gordon, Atd.de-Carnp to: Sir David Baird, on his return from Corunna. • Lieutenant -General Hope, upon his return from foreign sery ice. Admiral Bertie and Vice-Admiral Sir jarnes . Saumarez, on their return from the Baltic. Lieutinant-General Mackenzie Frazer and Gen. Beresfortl, upon their return from Spain. Capt. Arbuthnot, ur the act h Regiment of Light Dragoons, Aid-de-Camp to Major-General Berestord, upon his return from Spain. „. Major-General Ferguson, upon his being appointed to coin mann the Sicilian Regiinent. The Dean of bxeter, upon his being promoted to the Deanery of Salisbury, by Lord Charles Somerset. ear. PiercY, AideNtle-Camp to the fate Lieutenant-G6- nerat Sir John Moore, upon his return from Spam. - Mr. Moore, to restore the ribbon or the Order of the Bath, which belonged to the late Sir John Moore, Brigadier-General Stewart, upon his return from Spain, and upon his appointment et Governor of. Fort Charles, in Jamaica. His MAJESTY save private audiences trt the ,Duke Of PORTL AND and , t h e ot h er Cabinet Ministers who. Were all present, except We Earls of CHATHAM and BATHURST. His MAJESTY held a Privy Council, at which Sir JoHN NICHOLS was intronneed, and sworn in a Member, and look his seat at the Hon. ,Board: ac cordingly. HIS ' IMAJusrY proceeded to prick for the Sheriffs l'or the year ensuing. The K iNG returned to WiniLor last night, by the , same road that he carne. • The Admiralty has already taken measures for blockading the. ports of Ferrol and coruntia The !Verge, of 74 guns, If.tizOketh, 74, ZeulUtis, 74, and implacable, 74, are ordered on that service, and have, we believe, already proceeded to their destination. The KING hays been graCionsly. pleased to confer on the 84th Regiment, commanded by Lietitenant-Ge neral BERNARD, the name of " Yom and LANCAS. Tutt," . in addnion to its numerical title✓. The second Battalion of this Regiment, consisting of i 000 tine young felloWs, chiefly, from the Counties above mentioned, raised by General BaRNARD in less than six months, are on their march to Ipswich, in a com plete state of eampment, andyeady for any service to which their enquiry may call them. There is nu alteration in the price of Broad this week. NAVAL NE v-ir PORTSI‘I6IJTIT . , 6.--ArrFiecl ThisM i:e'c•ty't .Ship ,i c h fi t e ' s froth the yrest 10111 e, .and the trail: port Amphitrite, RAITR, one Of 'the "cdtz: troy, last froth Falmouth.. • FEB. 6.—Arrived and sailed f'or the Rivei the Hy, OTWAY, from .St. T,ucars; and the Harriot; LISTEN, from New BrUnS% theailed Sloop, for nan~s~ gate, with he'r mainmast 'split, and bowsprit sprung. Arrivtid his Majesty's Ship.///yetriou'i, from Ports- . mouth, and remains lb the POWns with the `rest cif the Ships As per lasi. FLOODING OF 7'HE FEN. Ei2v, FEB. waters at Eli Itaye bOeil higher by . six inches than ever remembered, and the gale of bind on Sunday, the Q9th ult. jusi at high water, presented Shell. a SpeElacle as ntay be eon- OeiVed; but ' . i:antiipt. be prolierly :described, The waters rolled over the banks in,a truly terrific state, and the distress Of the inhabitants•Of the Femi was pitiable to a great degree.' At' kin2,th the banks gnu way inmost direaions, and inunclated sixty thou sand acres of land six feet deep, ihveling ihhuses, cattle, statks; corn; a'nd every thing, in one geiwr:tl ruin. In short, I never witnessed Such a rtiel3,,t choly seen of destruolion in my'life. The dama ; _ , ,e. is estimated at mor e t h an h a lf a 411 t I ‘at next season is lesst;as well ae the growirig,crops, etc. • It is apprehended, a n d we believe lusily, tha.: Martinique has received considerable supphes • in troops, ammunition, and provisions. The following memorandum was yesterday ,stuck up at LLOYD'S • • " The' Amphitrite French frigate, Of : 44' duns, with .200 troops and,: 920 barrels of provisions,- at rived at Fort. Royal; Martinique, 18th ; she sailed from Pherhourg t3thNovember, in com pany with the Juno and Xnus Frigates, also with troops , ;lnd pro Visions on board. " On the 3d December the Amphitrite, hatiiri previously parted from bet' consorts, fell in Lord Cranston on d Lydia, from I:iverpOol, which which she eapt t) red. The Lydia, wai.bui Tt!e Lord Cranston was re-taken with DeceMber; by the Porn pie Man of NVar and Fawn Sloop, and seta inta Barbadoes. ‘,‘ The E ‘ xpedition from Halifax, under commDr,d of Sir GEORGRPtiEVOST, was spuiwn ward of Barbadoei on the 29th Decembr.r." It is al'o understood that the Island Of, Goad loupe has been relieved and reinforced by the vat there, about the 22d of Axember, of live Frigates, with troops and provisions, (rum Vrance. This intelligence is said to have,been brought by the Prince Adolphus Packet, i n 29 da't'a from St. Thomas's. The Island of Guadalotipe has'been relieved end reinforced by the arrival thew, about the 2. c 1 of De. cember, of five Frigates, with troops awl pi 01 i- SiOns, from France. • Of this. we were n 161010,1 by the I'rince eidolphus . Paeket, in Li!) cloys liotn,SL,Tllo - A yoting Lady of the name .of s on the point of Marriage with a baUker, dokd a friend's house in Charlotte -street, Purtland-phicie, where she was on, a visit on S.iturday night, and ha' not Since been heard of. Sie isthe daughter of 'a Knight, 22 years of age, highly accomplished, ii d a beatttiful woman. - The gallant is a Lientei4int in at regiment of dragoons. The IiECORDEE of LONDoN attended and reported to his MAJESTY Council, yesterday, part or t h e convicts capitally convit9ed at oc, selsic.fif befi,r6 last, in the Old Bailey, when Gavel, gliti.key, and ',awl., the three men cenvieted of , tireaking °pea the house of the Countess of MOETON were order ed for execution to-morrow se'rtnight. Yesterday morning 3Q female conviels, under Oen tenee of transportation, were removed froiii New gate, in caravans, to_Portsmouth, to be embarked for ,New Sotith Wales. ).esterday, a Court of Common Council was held at Guildhall, which was numerously attended. A report from the Committee for General Pur poses was read, relative to the expiration di the Act laying a Toll upon Horses and Carriages passing on a Sunday over Blackiriars Bridge c the Court agreed to a petition to the House of Commons, to Continue the said Act, which was ordered to be fairly tran scribed, and signed by the Town Clerk, and pro_ sensed forthwith by the Sheriffs, attended by the nemembrancer; us was also a Petition for leave to bring in a Bill for the removal of Smithfield Market. The Irish Society were► appointed for the year en suing, of which Harvey Christian Coiube, Esq. Al derman, was elected Governor, and R. Knight, Eq., Deputy Governor. Mr. Edward Clarke was appointed, a Govern( of St. Bartholomew's Hospital, in the room of Mr: George Eades, not in Common Council, The Committee reported nu the power of the Court'' relative to Christ's Hospital, which was un animously agreed-to. • Tui FRENCH Encl. P..--A Letter from 'Chichester, dated the 31st ult. contains the fallowing article " A circumstanc e ha s occurred this morning, which I think should be known. Two of the French Im peral Eagles which were taken in the batrk' ne Comma, were sold yesterday fit,BARKEte4 the vetstnith, in this town ; they are of skiver, • ond weigh about fifteen ouncei. The man, wlio sa;:t bayoneted the Frenchman. was a Highlander of tiit. wad, or Gordon's; and I cannot account for Ins selling such a noble trophy of the superiority of Bri-' ed tish courage and discipline, un l ess from - abiolute ne cessity. Some of our 'r e gim en t s l iave before when the pole that supported the standard, but,nevPr the thing itself, and LSUONAPA‘tTI3 has particularly exult that they never were taken.". An Edition of Madame COTTIN'a jr,„,, , f ield," we understand, will appe.ar in a few days. It is considered in Paris to be the most finished pro duaion that has issued from the pen of this eh..lant writer. „We hare also the pleasure to announc.• t 1 e publication of a Novel by the.celebraWd entitled ",Lermittra."